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What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.

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Kiefer Sutherland
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: December 21
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Saint Mary's Hospital
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I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
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